The phrase "affects hearing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing how something influences or impacts a person's ability to hear.
Example: "Exposure to loud noises over time can significantly affect hearing and lead to permanent damage."
Alternatives: "impacts hearing" or "influences hearing".
Despite its centricity to molecular biology, little work has been conducted examining how epigenetics affects hearing.
There is debate about whether diabetes affects hearing through angiopathic or neuropathic mechanisms (20).
Despite growing interest in the relationship between loss of Cmah activity and age-related hearing loss, how genome-wide altered gene expression in the cochlear tissues of Cmah-null mouse affects hearing loss with aging remains unclear.
Sturley had been diagnosed with Usher syndrome, a genetic condition that affects hearing, vision and balance.
This is because Watson's complete DNA - his genome - contains a single gene for Usher's syndrome, an inherited disorder which affects hearing and sight.
They cite research that states that repeated exposure to loud noise not only affects hearing but also induces stress-related disorders.
Based on auditory brainstem response data, FC-NCs do not adversely affect hearing.
The HAP-RM model is applied to the measured vehicle interior noise signals by considering the factors that affect hearing, such as the modulation and carrier frequencies, the time and frequency maskings and the correlations of the critical bands.
However, we would not expect the morphological effects of the gelsolin mutation, confined to stereocilia in the apical OHCs, to markedly affect hearing sensitivity.
The choice of surgery may also significantly affect hearing outcomes.
Perhaps, ear infections only affect hearing in childhood and early adulthood.
